Ideas

You'll have a hard time building up tour tracking and recommendation system (you like A B C so probably also like D), for the sake of a relatively small value-add. I think there's too many established platforms for bands (TicketMaster, Last.FM, Amazon) where all the needed info to offer up such a service is already aggregated for it to be worth while pursuing it from scratch.

For example... (sorry for double post here). Amazon, Last.FM and TicketMaster all have core activities which drive site activity. What you're describing isn't a compelling activity. Its a feature.

Noelius,
I agree with Gordon: loads of commercial sites have this service already.
Now they build up the content for free, while doing business with you. How do you want to get the content?
Tommy

Thanks for your comments. My idea is to allow everybody to choose which groups are they favourite ones, without the option to listen them in my website, only to vote them. So, the website would recommend you small groups which are being promoted in my website.

Abut the earnings: ads and CD/ticket selling.

MySpace, YouTube, any music site that you can googled or askjeeved.

There are lots and lots of sites that do this type of stuff.

I think it's not the same, because in youtube I'm not waching every video, but if you cold know which groups do you really like, you could be ofered related ones. That's the idea. Thanks for the comments!

In YouTube you just click the user group. You can see all of the videos by the user and the related videos.

http://www.pandora.com?

Sort of Last.FM? (Or Pandorra.com if you live inside the US)

Yes, something like last.fm, but instead of listening famous groups, only you cna add your favourites and the system will recommedn you small ones.

Perhaps you could get the artists to suggest similarities themselves. After all, it's in their interests to describe themselves accurately so that the people that hear their music are those who want to buy it. I guess you'd also want to allow listeners to report inappropriate comparisons.

I've tried to promote my music on a number of sites like this at different times and they all suffer the same problem of needing to reach critical mass before they're useful to either the artists or the listeners. Do you have any novel ideas as to how to combat this problem?

Well, I think that it would be useful to create a comunity, with ticket selling, concerts info, interviews, etc. to get as many users as possible and to let groups promote as effective as possible.

I think the platform should be online but also ofline, prmoting concerts like a big management system.

We're doing something similar in concept right now over at Critical Mass for one of our clients.

It is a social music site, where bands can upload their music which can be streamed to any audience through many different channels (streams, widgets, in-browser, podcast).

One of the unique features of the site is the 'inspiration engine' it won't be going full live until we get a base amount of users, but people will be able to tag songs based on what 'inspired them'.

So by if XYZ band was inspired by The Beatles, and 10 other bands put that as the inspiration tag - suddenly the listener is shown other bands with the same inspiration.

We're still brainstorming some of it, but it's looking promising.

Yes something similar to that, this is the idea, ut instead of a part, the main part of the business.

I see where you're going with this. If I hear a certain band or singer with a specific "sound" to them, I always wonder if there are other bands with a similar "sound". If you were to somehow database bands based on "sound' then you may have something. it would take a pretty active community to get it done though.

As an example. Let's say i like the Black Crowes. I like that "sound". Does anyone know of another band with a similar sound? If so then I may be interested in downloading a few songs or buy a cd.

Is this what you were hoping to do?

interviewables:yes, it isexactly what I tried to explain.
Sorry because not having explained it correctly!

"If I hear a certain band or singer with a specific "sound" to them"
Well there are sites that sort by sound/rhythms. For example:http://www.songtapper.com/

There are also sites that link similar related songs based on what people listen to and tag like http://www.imeem.com

Maybe something like that. But in Spanish I don't know any. Maybe last.fm, but I thnk it's different

Well, this idea was an idea response, I hope my contributions were useful to original idea creator:_
http://www.cambrianh...er/ideas-id/nFIMp5Y/

How is this different from what Pandora provides?

http://www.pandora.com

It is going to be incredibly difficult to defeat the power of the Music Genome project's suggestion engine. I can often play their radio for hours without ever wanting to change the song.

http://pandora.com/mgp

I don't know, if you are outside US you can't access pandora.